Damien Chaumette

[Pankaj @the2ndfloorguy]

i hooked my whoop to my work calendar to find which coworker gives me the most stress 🚨

thanks to fable, I reverse engineered whoop to pull per minute heart rate. nd matched spikes with cal events and attendees

I now have a leaderboard and I think about it daily.

few info masked for obvious reasons ;)

[Damien Chaumette @dami0u]

@dhh https://t.co/nno3EA4LXr

[DHH @dhh]

Even if AMD is now beat on battery efficiency, it's worth remembering that the HX370 still performs (exactly!) as well as Panther Lake on heavy multi-core runs like HEY's 30K-assertion test suite. Might be some good deals to be had on those machines soon!

[Damien Chaumette @dami0u]

@dhh You were quite vocal about big Hey test suite performance gains when switching from Mac to Linux last year. Battery aside, how does this compare to your framework laptop and desktop?

[Damien Chaumette @dami0u]

@aledeniz As a Frenchman with an Italian wife & living in the UK, I can say I’m puzzled at the total lack of books, little to no homework, and seemingly laid back approach to learning. Not saying 20kgs backpacks & 2hrs daily homework is the only way but something in the middle perhaps?

[Damien Chaumette @dami0u]

@chmouel Get me out of this everything-JS-electron-chromium world. I can’t take the low perfs and high ram usage this slop generates..

[hiroshi @daddynohara]

> be me, applied scientist at amazon
> spend 6 months building ML model that actually works
> ready to ship
> manager asks "but does it Dive Deep?"
> show him 37 pages of technical documentation
> "that's great anon, but what about Customer Obsession?"
> model literally convinces customers to buy more stuff they don't need
> "okay but are you thinking Big Enough?"
> mfw I am literally increasing sales
> okay lets ship it
> PM says there's not enough Disagree and Commit
> we need to disagree about something
> team spends 2 hours debating whether the config file should be YAML or JSON
> engineering insists on XML "for backwards compatibility"
> what backwards compatibility, this is a new service
> doesn't matter, we disagree and commit to XML
> finally get approval to deploy
> "make sure you're frugal with the compute costs"
> model runs on a potato, costs $2/month
> finance still wants a cost breakdown
> write 6-pager about why we need $2/month
> include bar raiser in the review
> bar raiser asks "but can we do it for $1.50? we need to be Frugal"
> spend another month optimizing to hit $1.50
> ready to deploy again
> VP decides we need to "Invent and Simplify"
> requests we rebuild the entire thing using a new framework
> framework doesn't exist yet
> "show some Ownership and build it yourself"
> 3 months later, framework is half done
> org restructure happens
> new manager says this doesn't align with team goals anymore
> project cancelled
> model never ships
> manager gets promoted to L8 for "successfully reallocating resources"
> team celebrates with 6-pager retrospective about what we learned
> mfw we delivered on all 16 leadership principles
> mfw we delivered nothing else
> amazon.jpg

[Damien Chaumette @dami0u]

@chmouel

[Damien Chaumette @dami0u]

@chmouel Ah. Something defensive on your side: fighting AI with AI? E.g. skill & prompt to detect slop, duplication, not-answering-the-ask, that'll let you know whether it's worth your time or a straight return-to-sender?

[Damien Chaumette @dami0u]

@googlecloud it was fun while it lasted (since August) but I tap out appealing GCP suspension, I can't seem get to level 3 in this quest. Same process runs in prod with OpenAI and Anthropic, and I bet Gemini under a new google account wouldn't get banned. Nothing wrong with it.

[Arthur Juliani @awjuliani]

I'm trying to figure out where to live next, and one big consideration is the climate. So naturally I made a tool that represents monthly average temperatures for cities as 3D rings so they can be compared more easily. Check it out: https://t.co/MqPb0ufLYY

[Damien Chaumette @dami0u]

@DontFearAI @FrameworkPuter ~25% increase on the 128GB is rough though. I get why, but I was contemplating getting one last week and +$460 today is certainly making me reconsider sticking with current setup.

[Damien Chaumette @dami0u]

@chmouel Marginally less complex/verbose than yaml/json, I guess. Some days I miss a good old INI file. Mmh

[Damien Chaumette @dami0u]

@chmouel I haven’t even clicked on the link and I’m sold. Terrific marketing :)

[Damien Chaumette @dami0u]

. @Eurostar_HelpDe that’s your official handle? Created the 25th with 4 followers, no official affiliation and no blue tick? @Eurostar

[Damien Chaumette @dami0u]

@Eurostar, rare infos yesterday and nothing at all since yesterday evening on your handle. I guess we “just try” and hope for the best? That’s really helpful.

[Damien Chaumette @dami0u]

@chmouel That's a cool one. I find myself using plan-mode in CC & Cursor for refining a larger body of work, but this feels nicely focused for smaller tasks. Some sort of feature-mode.

[Damien Chaumette @dami0u]

@chmouel J'ai toujours pense aux sous-agents comme des Mr Meeseeks dans Rick & Morty (avec recursion quasi-infinie), mais Claudettes c'est bien plus accrocheur :) https://t.co/0HKp5yxusZ

[Damien Chaumette @dami0u]

The #enshitification continues unabated. Plenty of decent implementations on other OSes and even some on Windows, but their answer is to pre-load the bloat. Amazing.

[Windows Latest @WindowsLatest]

Microsoft admits File Explorer is slow in Windows 11, and it’s going to preload it in the background to help improve launch performance.

“This shouldn’t be visible to you, outside of File Explorer hopefully launching faster when you need to use it,” Microsoft confirmed.

If you don’t want Windows 11 to preload File Explorer, you can uncheck the option called “Enable window preloading for faster launch times” in File Explorer’s Folder Options under View.

File Explorer is still snappy on Windows 10, but the modernized Windows 11 version also brought slower performance.

This change is rolling out to Windows Insiders.

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

actuallyCompleteVersion https://t.co/LinEuctdWp